Help! REALLY, REALLY confused! - Page 2

Aw cute I would say boy if there are no striped feathers. The girls usually have less coloring -coloring in your case being white. He looks like my normal gray boy without the yellow or the orange.

You have a pretty male whiteface cockatiel. Congrats.

:-)

aquaeyes,could you sex these two for me?





i bought them as 2 males but think the yellow one is perhaps female? she doesnt whistle and sing like the other and has stripes under 'her' tail and wings....


i also have 2 young tiels from the beginning of this year..they have white 'spots' under their wings and stripes under the tails...are they both female? (can get a photo of those tomorrow)

The whiteface is a male. If the pearl is a year old or older, it is a female. Pearl males lose their pearl markings beginning at about 6 months, and by 1 year they look as though they never were pearl. They still are, genetically, it's just that as males mature, they lose the markings.

didnt know that about the white faced, wow...turns out in all my years ive NEVER seen a female white faced teil then...plenty of males, but if the females only have white cheek patches..ive never seen a female.  i feel kinda incomplete now lol.

This is a female whiteface cockatiel. The whiteface mutation simply eliminates all yellow and orange pigment. So look at a normal gray female, and wherever you see yellow or orange, replace it with white.

Hey, so what's the verdict on the pearl? I said it's a girl if it's a year or more in age, but you didn't respond....I'm dying to know....does that mean you have a girl, or is it still a baby?

Hi all,

I remember several years ago there was an article in Bird Talk or something similar about A strain of Male Pearled cockatiels that upon maturity were not losing their pearls. Does anyone remember this??? That little guy sure looks like a male.

Joni